by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 24, 2022 | For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Not rarely patients and readers on this site ask about vitamin D supplements and whether they raise the risk for kidney stones or reduce risk for bone fractures. This article is about the first question. In pursuit of the answer, I would like to share with you how one...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 17, 2022 | Book, For Doctors, For Patients
It is not enough to tell people they need to change this or that in their diets for stone prevention. We did that already, here, in a lot of articles. What people need is a meal plan that has in it all the things for stone prevention and tastes good, is easy enough to...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 11, 2022 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function, Uncategorized
A Free New Book About Kidney Stones Here is a download link for the book Here is a brief video that walks you through the book Why Another Book? It has long been my impression that discussion of kidney stone formation arises less out of the rich detail of kidney...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jul 5, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients
As much as diet causes kidney stones, diet change prevents them. Not diet in general, of course, too vague to matter. Thus far decent science identifies only seven components of diet as affecting stone formation: calcium, sodium, refined sugars, potassium, protein,...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Feb 17, 2019 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
The painting by van Gogh, The Sower with Setting Sun (1888) Kroller – Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, has no obvious connection to this article unless you have read Nellie Hermann’s essay on the former mining district of Belgium called the...